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Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals de Jonathan Balcombe

Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals: Macmillan Science

Autor Jonathan Balcombe
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mar 2010
Jonathan Balcombe's follow-up to his successful first book, Pleasurable Kingdom, is an eloquent and scientifically informed account, which shatters the myth that animals eat and reproduce mindlessly and shows how we humans have to learn to treat them as sentient beings capable of feelings and pain and emotions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230613621
ISBN-10: 0230613624
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MACMILLAN EDUCATION
Seria Macmillan Science

Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

PART I: EXPERIENCE
Introduction
Tuning In (Animal Sensitivity)
With Feeling (Emotions)
Knowing it (Awareness)
PART II: COEXISTENCE
Conveying it (Communication)
Getting Along (Sociability)
Doing Good (Virtue)
PART III: EMERGENCE
Rethinking Wild Existence
Homo Fallible
The New Humanity

Recenzii


 
'...fascinating, well-written, consistently thought-provoking, and deserves a wide readership.' – The Guardian

'Jonathan Balcombe has brought together...evidence that animals have far more in common with us humans than we might like to suppose.  As well as cunning and intelligence, they can also show kindness and sensitivity.' - The Evening Standard 
 
'...captivating and disquieting...' - Human Givens
 
'...J.M. Coetzee...praises Balcombe as "a scientist who has escaped the narrow orthodoxies of institutional science". This is true." - TLS

 
Praise for Pleasurable Kingdom: 

'Brisk, erudite and enormously entertaining  - an excellent, approachable introduction to the basic issues in animal behaviour.' - Publishers Weekly

'Entertaining examples of animal bliss  - from drunken parrots to the caresses of fiddler crabs — bring a pleasure all their own.' - Psychology Today

'This well-reasoned, engaging book argues that critters share our capacities for humor, empathy and aesthetic pleasure.' - People Magazine

'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is recommended for popular science collections.' - Library Journal

'Fascinating and often moving, this book emphasizes that animals  - like us  - truly have personalities, minds and emotions.' - Jane Goodall, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

'Superb  - has set an agenda for future research. This book will change how we interact with other animal beings.' - Marc Bekoff in Trends in Ecology& Evolution

'A well-argued thesis.' - Scientific American

'… lively, shrewd, well-argued … an admirable contribution.' - Mary Midgley, in Times Higher Education Supplement
 

Notă biografică

JONATHON BALCOMBE is Animal Behavior Research Consultant for the Washington DC-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the author of Pleasurable Kingdom. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Caracteristici

Balcombe's first book garnered praise from many respected scientists and animal activists: 'Draws together an extraordinary amount of information' said Peter Singer; Jane Goodall described it as 'fascinating and often moving'; and Marc Beckoff called it 'superb'
Pleasurable Kingdom had a first serial in The Independent. It took issue with the basic tenet of evolutionary theory: that our behaviour is naturally adapted to survival pressures. Instead Balcombe argued that animals indulge in many acts that are not geared toward procreation and whose only motivator is pleasure. The new book will harness the latest scientific evidence to showcase the full range of animals' emotions (whereas the first book just focused on pleasure)
Today, science is uncovering stunning new information on animals' experiences - including aspects of their awareness, emotionality, perceptiveness, sociability and virtue that were undreamed of a generation ago. This book showcases these discoveries, and argues for a dramatic overhaul in our relationship with sentient animal life
Balcombe combines rigorous science with entertaining anecdotes to reach a wide readership
Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee has agreed to write a foreword for the book. He is the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life& Times of Michael K and Disgrace, among others. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003